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Since 1989, Blue Hill Heritage Trust has worked to preserve agricultural land on the Blue Hill peninsula. As part of this effort, the Trust sought to acquire an agricultural easement on Bowden Farm, an attractive 208-acre mix of woods and fields along Route 15. The Land for Maine’s Future program and the USDA Farm and Ranch Land Read More

Broadturn Farm is a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) farm that raises organic vegetables, cut flowers, strawberries, a small amount of poultry, and turkey, as well as natural lamb and pork. The property is in agricultural conservation with the Scarborough Land Conservation Trust (SLCT). Formerly called the Keith Meserve Farm, the land is one of the largest Read More

This 170-acre working farm was conserved in 2008 through a generous donation by landowner Ripley Swan, funding by the Land for Maine’s Future program, and with considerable assistance by the Farm and Ranch Protection Program. Aside from being perpetually available for agriculture, this conservation easement property also conserves 2000 feet of beautiful Androscoggin River frontage. Read More

The Speckled Mountain parcel was part of an early Land for Maine’s Future (LMF) project that included multiple parcels totaling 37,000 acres. This 64-acre tract, near state park land that the Bureau of Parks and Lands holds around Little Concord Pond in Woodstock, includes a portion of the Bald-Speckled Mountain trail on the west slope Read More

The Land for Maine’s Future (LMF) program and the USDA Farm and Ranch Land Protection Program supported the Maine Department of Agriculture in purchasing an agricultural easement that will help to keep in active use 24 acres of farm fields and 92 acres of productive timberland. The N.L. Lorio Farm is located along Route 15 Read More

Lying a half-mile from Merrymeeting Bay, one of the Eastern seaboard’s largest and most productive estuaries, the open fields of this working dairy farm are a popular stopover for Canada geese and other migratory waterfowl. Grants from the Land for Maine’s Future program and the USDA Farm and Ranch Land Protection Program enabled the Maine Read More

This working farm was conserved in 2004 through funding from the Land for Maine’s Future program and the Farmland Ranch Protection Program. In 2007 and 2010 the landowners, Bob and Ella Mae Packard, generously donated two additional agricultural conservation easements to the Androscoggin Land Trust, bringing the total conserved acreage of this farm to approximately Read More

At the end of 2010, Maine Farmland Trust and Androscoggin Land Trust completed a collaborative effort to conserve 625 acres of working farmland (River Rise Farm) and forest along the Androscoggin River on Gulf Island Pond through generous funding from Land for Maine’s Future and the USDA’s Farmland Ranch Protection Program. The land will remain privately owned, Read More

Sand beaches are a rare geological feature in downeast Maine, making this mile-long spit off Lubec even more unusual. It parallels the shore between West Quoddy State Park and the town of Lubec and can be seen from both settings. An extensive salt marsh lies along its landward side with a unique raised peatland known Read More